Thanksgiving at Greenwood Hill Brightens Cassy's Hope
In a 19th century tale from the Blake household Cassy Mayne, treated as an underdog in a strict family, longs for a Thanksgiving social at Greenwood Hill. Aunt Abby Thayer intervenes when a Robber traps Cassy and Frank Whitcomb secretly hatches a plan that ends in a quiet wedding and a newfound sense of liberty and faith.
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Prient
Aay Mayne
Ae Watcher
Bestar
Frank Whitcomb
Greenwood Hill
Cassy Mayne
Kate
Cassy
Bat
Scrapbooks and gifts bind families in old time guides
A meditation on scrapbooks as a compact keeper of household wisdom shows how headings like Recipes help collect useful clippings. The piece urges family members to mark articles, then have younger relatives cut and paste into department scrapbooks, preserving cattle, hog, and other notes for easy reference. It also mentions egg nutrition, a tale of a closet prank, and a look at Puritan Thanksgiving customs and charity.
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Cassy
Bby
Whitcomb
Abby
Mr. Blake
San Francisco Chronicle
Chicago Journal
Captain Barkson
Barkson
Abby Amie
Frank Whitcomb
Tatas
Ola Dobbin
Outh
University of Zaficney
Cecalstiog
Mathewes
British and Foreign Bible Society
Sarah F. Smiley
Ome
St. Peters
Rome
London
Spurgeon
Moody
Helen
John
Lin
Coln
Lincoln
Thad
Americas
North Street
Ocean Park
Old Orchard
Boston
Sanitary Club
Seminary Enquirer
Clog-Maker in Lancashire Sign Inspires Philadelphia
A Times reporter meets Charles Halliwell, a Lancashire clog maker now in Philadelphia. He describes carving wooden clogs from seasoned poplar using a knife, with tools resembling a paper cutter. Halliwell blends craft and poetry, promoting his wares through verses on his sign The Clog, noting a tougher business than in Elizabethan times.
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Times
Charles Halliwell
Philadel Haa
Aipal
Jimmy Stokes
Hans Honk
Mr. Halliwell
Philadelphia Times
Artificial Eyes Move With Natural Eye Signals
A Philadelphia Record report details a pioneering surgery by Dr. Roland D. Jones to enable an artificial eye to move like a natural one. In Benny Irwin, seven, the muscles were reattached to the conjunctiva to form a sack, guiding the prosthetic eye to mirror healthy eye movements despite inflammation.
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Stirin
Roland D. Jones
Green Street
Benny Irwin
Noble Street
Dr. Jones
J. F. Whitten
H. N. K. Swank
Edward Nunez
J.p.boyd
Jones
Irwin
Pialphia
A Statesman's Home Hawarden Estate of Gladstone
A portrait of Hawarden in Flintshire as Gladstone’s country retreat. The piece extols estate size and wealth among English statesmen, notes Gladstone’s acres, the rent yield, and contrasts Hawarden Castle ruins with the modern inhabited mansion. It ends praising Gladstone’s love of trees and simple comforts.
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E. Sanguer
Demores
Hawarden
Mr. Gladstone
St Hawarden
Flint
Flintshire
Wales
Lord Hanmer
Jone
Mr. Thoreau
Thoreau
Gladstone
Hawarden Castle
Sauerkraut Craze In Milwaukee Factories And Home Use
Milwaukee reports a surge in sauerkraut output with at least three factories producing over five thousand barrels this year. Cabbages are processed into clean, odor-free kraut using a patented method, selling barrels for 4 to 4.25 dollars and quart sales at eight to ten cents. Households and stores see wide use and varied cooking methods.
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Milwaukee
Manitoba
Newspaper Fragments Showcase Quirky Satires and Old Jests
A jumble of brief, misprinted phrases and humor notes from a bygone era. Items include mock dialogues about a deaf grandma, a New York lady fearing sea life preservers on a steamboat to Coney Island, and a gag about a thermometer for summer hotels. Also references to boys avoiding tricks, a Golden Days vignette, and a quip on a new invention and its apocryphal “thermometer.”
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Joshua
Regina
Jessie
Chronicle ‘Telegraph
New York
Coney Island
Ingly
George
Philadelj
Thanksgiving Without Papa and Insect Mimicry Tales
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Thanksgiving without a missing father, reflections on family, gratitude, and memory. The piece shifts to natural history, describing insect mimicry in locusts, butterflies, and cocoons, with observations from a Maine setting and a Boston domestic vignette about home ventilation and furnace safety.
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Isa
Earth
Cassys
Gideon Blake
South Peachum
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Toder
Atato
Tonger
Pothe
Natke Blake
Abby Thayer
Louise
Hiker
Mousey
Blake
Mayne
Squire Whitsomb
Louise Blake
Abby Taeth
Jal
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Greenwood
Frankcomb
Whitcombe
Topettien
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Paneer Eace
Chen
Mr. Whitcomb
Frank
Aunt Abby Thayer
Wearin
Axon
Harriet A. Cheever
Meagbee County
Montana
Chicago Herald
Barksom
Paneo
Statesman
Sauerkraut
Brordalbin
Fulton County
N. Y
Horace Bushnell
Sinai
Calvary
Hattis Snell
St. Johnsville
Ariptaament
Washington
Sheridan
Edmunds
Carlisle
America
Erie
Robert J. Burdette
Brooklyn Hagle
Papa
Independent
Easil Ee
Ira
Mm N. Y. Tribune
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